The lost genius of Mozart's sister
theguardian.com
theguardian.com
"There is evidence that Marianne wrote musical compositions, as there are letters from Wolfgang praising her work, but the voluminous correspondence of her father never mentions any of her compositions, and none have survived" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Anna_Mozart)
Now, contrast her case with another contemporary female prodigy, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi) one can see that not all parents at that time were so ignorant of their daughters' potential.
"When she was fifteen, her father began to regularly gather in his house a circle of the most learned men in Bologna,[9] before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. Records of these meetings are given in Charles de Brosses' Lettres sur l'Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae, which her father had published in 1738 as an account of her final performance, where she defended 190 theses."
Leopold Mozart was no ignoramus (say, like, Gauss' father who tried to stop his son's education so to avoid him being an "egghead"), he could have supported Maria Anne similarly.
Aside from that, it seems highly unlikely that there would be no letters just based on the fact that there is no known family drama or estrangement.
I think you've made quite an assumption in your reasoning.
I wonder, when do they peg the date that men and women became treated equally and henceforth all difference in autonomy, liberty, and respect were due to the inherent superiority of men? It seems they still circle about pounding their hands on the good books lamenting the lost wisdom of the iron age.
If you are simply saying that one must take the sexism of the time into account, how can you be sure the alleged chauvinists haven't already done so before making their judgement?
I can't help but wonder whether your enthusiastic posturing about these nameless villains is remotely accurate.
Notably absent is any claim that women in the 18th century were treated other than terribly. It is possible and indeed highly likely both that women were treated unfairly and also that Wolfgang's sister would not have rivaled him as a composer, as there are only a small handful of people living or dead who ever have.
If it weren't such a contentious topic, people would not be comparing it to the dogma of religion. Finding an article unconvincing warrants a shrug or some skepticism, not invective against some bogeyman of a feminist cult. It's not disagreeing, it's how the disagreement is expressed.
But please, go ahead and vehemently defend people who immediately resort to contempt when the idea that a woman was overlooked by history appears.
Putting aside that that was not your original complaint, why are you then engaging in the behavior you're objecting to? It doesn't help anything to become the zealot your antagonists are expecting.
The conundrum of modern feminism is that 20th century feminists got nearly everything they wanted. What remains is the hard, subtle, detail-oriented work that doesn't lend itself to sound bites or sloganeering.
But there are people with no patients for that kind of work who would rather stall progress by fighting against men rather than for equality. And those people provoke the reactions you're objecting to by conditioning men to expect to be accused of things they haven't done and blamed for things that happened before they were born.
The interesting part is that your comment here is, for me at least, one of those exact comments, constructing some sort of imaginary foe to rage against.